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Vigna beans: cultivation
“Vigna” – asparagus beans, rich in vitamins and minerals. Popular in the system of healthy nutrition and in the treatment of the digestive system. Let’s consider why the culture is considered healthy, how to use it and grow it.
Beans “Vigna”: description and useful properties
The legumes brought to our country from Africa every year more and more take root in the gardens of summer residents and on the farms of agronomists.
Vigna is great for a healthy diet
Eaten “Vigna” is in the form of a small climbing bush and produces thin, long beans with juicy pulp and dietary seeds. The size of the beans depends on the variety, the early ripening is much shorter than the late varieties.
It is unpretentious, but does not like the cold, so it is more productive for the inhabitants of the middle lane to plant seedlings, and after the plant rises and gets stronger, transplant it into the open ground. The most popular are young asparagus shoots.
The plant contains the following useful elements:
- proteins;
- starch;
- vitamins C, B, A;
- mineral salts;
- iron.
Recommended for use by people suffering from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system, kidneys. It has also been proven that a decoction of the plant has a beneficial effect on the body with diabetes and rheumatism.
Planting and growing “Vigna”
If you decide to enrich your crop with a new edible crop, pay attention to the advice of experienced agronomists:
- Soak the seeds in potassium permanganate for several hours, then place them in peat cups. In about a month, the seeds will sprout and grow stronger.
- Determine a place for growing “Vigna” on the site of the vegetable patch. The culture develops well if its predecessors were potatoes, cucumbers or tomatoes.
- Add superphosphate and organic fertilizers such as slurry to the soil a week before planting.
- Transplant the seedlings into warm soil and water the soil.
If the air temperature drops below 18 degrees, be sure to build a greenhouse or greenhouse.
Beans of this variety have a fairly short growing season – about 40-50 days after the plant has emerged. After the specified time, you can harvest
In the future, the plant requires simple care: moisture in dry weather, getting rid of weeds, systematic loosening of the earth’s surface. It is not forbidden to feed the culture with humus or potassium.
As you can see, the culture does not require careful care and increased attention and even the most inexperienced summer resident can grow it.